Gratiana, Africa


Gratiana was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa, which remains a latin catholic titular see.
Today Gratiana survives as a titular bishopric and the current archbishop, personal title, is Francisco Escalante Molina, apostolic nuncio to the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.

History

Gratiana, in modern Tunisia, was among the many towns of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Byzacena to become a suffragan of Carthage, but would completely fade, plausibly at the 7th century advent of Islam.
During the Roman Empire the bishopric was centered on a town in the Roman province of Byzacena. Three of its bishops are historically documented :
The dicese was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular bishopric of Gratiana / Graziana / Gratianen
It has had the following incumbents, albeit so far none of the fitting Episcopal rank but all archiepiscopal: